Improved hat-brush



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OOURTLAND F. PHELPS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO HlM- SELF AND ELISHA STONE, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVED HAT-BRUSH.

Y Specificationforming part of Letters Patent No. 38,632, dated May 19, 1863.

To all whom it may concern.'

Beit known that I, OOUETLAND F. PHELPs, a resident of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Hat-Brush; and I do hereby decla-re the same to be fully described in the following speciication and represented in the accompanying drawings, of Which- Figure 1 is a top View 5 Fig. 2, a vertical and longitudinal section, and Fig. 3 a horizontal and longitudinal section of it.

The nature of my invention is a combination consisting not only of an ordinary hat-brush, but a springholder applied thereto and in such manner as to hold or co-operate in holding the hat-brush within a hat when such brush may be placed therein.

1n the drawings, A is the brush, of which c is the body, b the handle, and c the Velvet or plush covering or substitute for bristles, as commonly employed in the making of brushes. The spring-holder is shown at B as consisting of a cushioned knob, d, aixed on the end of a stem, e. The said stem is placedwithin a corresponding socket, f, made longitudinally in the body aand at one end thereof. There is also a helical sprin g, g,placed Within the socket and between its bottom and the inner end ot' the stem. The stem is recessed or notched, as shown at h in Fig. 3. A pin, fi, passed through the body and the notch, serves to keep the holder in connection with the said body.

Fig. 4 represents the manner in which the holder secures the brush in place-within a hat. The spring of the holder operates to press the cushion-knob of the holder and the brush-body against opposite sides of the internal part ot the hat.

I claim- The improved brush or combination of the brush and the spring-holder, or its equivalent, the latter being for the purpose specified.

C() URTLAND F. PHELPS.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr. 

